Necktie-fastener.



PAT-ENTED JUNE 2. 1903.0"

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UNITED STATES Patented J'une, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE- OTTO KRAUS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 730,028, dated J' une` 2,: V1903. i'

Application filed January 10, 1903. SerialNo. 138.4757. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, OTTOYV KRAUS, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain 'new and useful Improvements in Necktie -Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates Vto certain improvements in-necktie-fasteners, and is disclosed herein in connection with a scarf popularly known in the trade as a shield-teck.

The invention has for one of its more 'important objects provision whereby the necessity for employing tools or other special operations ordinarily required for securing the metallic button-engaging fastener to articles of neckwear embodying shields is dispensed with and an arrangement provided in lieu thereof whereby the fastener can be so manipulated as to effect its convenient andfsecure attachment. Y

There are other novel features and details connected with the present improvements, which are also clearly explained in the subsequent detail description.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a rear view of a part of a shield teck illustrating my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a portion of the scarf viewed from the rear and illustrating the position of the parts immediately prior `to completing the stitching of the cross-piece of the scarf. Fig. 3 is a rear perspective view: showing on an enlarged scale the metallic fastener and its carrying-plate. Fig. 4: is a view of saidfastener and plate looking at the opposite side thereof, the engaged relation of the scarf-shield being illustrated by dotted lines. Fig: 5 is a detail horizontal section through the scarf, the section being taken in the plane indicated bythe broken line 5 5, Fig. vl. Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional view, the section taken in the plane Vindicated by the broken line 6 (i, Fig. l.

Similar reference characters are employed to designate corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the drawings where they occur.

In manufacturing Teck scarfs and using familiar forms of collar-button-engaging fasteners with which Iam acquainted, of which one type is represented in the drawings by the wire fastener A, there are two or more points of engagement of the fastener with the shield. Consequently in order to afford access at the proper time to the front face of the shield it becomes necessary to apply the cross-piece of thev scarf to the rear of the shield and before completing the arrangement and final stitching of said cross-piece to secure the fastener by causing its tongue a and terminals a' a' to pierce the fabric of the rear fold c of the cross-piece and also the body of the shield and be clenched by special operations and tools against the front face of said shield. This practice not only requires accuracy on the part of the operator to vgage the points at which said tongue and terminals are passed through the fold c coincidently with the perforations .in the shield, but also necessitates, as before stated, the employment of tools to effect the proper clenching of the tongueand terminals on the shield-front.

In-my invention the fastener is appropriately engaged with the shield without involving clenching operations or tools and in a manner permitting the end of the cross-piece of the scarf to be subsequently neatly and conveniently secured'at thel rear.

In the form of vthe invention disclosed in the drawings the fastener A has laterally supported spring-arms a ,bent to present a shankreceiving eye, said fastener being-of wire and positively secured to a thin circular sheetmetal plate B on the rear face thereof. At one point of its edge portion the plate B is integrally provided with a plurality of ears b b', adapted to be-bent over at the plate-front, and firmly embrace or clamp the curved portion d of a spring member D, said portion d generally conforming in curvature to the peripheral portion of the plate. This member D is of stiff wire and terminates at a point somewhat beyond the vertical center ofthe plate in i a forwardly -disposed angular projection dx, bent to form a free extension' or spur d'. The member D extends below the lower ear b' and is bent to present a clamping-bar D', located slightly below the plate B and by reason of a forwardly-disposed bend cl3 in a vertical` plane somewhat beyond one face of the plate.

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The bar D is of such dimensions that before the application of the plate B and features carried thereby to the tie said bar extends in inclined relation with respect to the plate and terminates in a rearward ly-disposed horizontal-catch or hook (Z2. This feature is indicated in its unadjusted position in full lines in Figs. 3 and 4 and in its adjusted position by dotted lines in Figs. l, 2, 3, and 4.

In the manufacture of Teck scarfs or ties according to my invention the shield E, with the ln'operly-covered wings c and having integrally the customary central depending tab E, will have the rear fold c of the cross-piece C of the scarf adjusted against the rear of the shield at the central portion of the latter so that the extremity of said cross-piece C overlaps the upper edge of and lies in front of the shield. The rear fold c will be so disposed that one of its edges c2 will approximately coincide with the contiguous edge of the shield-tab E', as illustrated in Fig. 2. Vith the fold c thus conditioned the plate B and attached fastener A are next manipulated so that while held at an angle relative to the fold e and rear side of the shield E the spur d can be passed through the fabric of the fold c and the hole provided in the shield for said spur.

and the plate and fastener then moved against the fold and shield, so that the spur (Z will intimately bear against the latter at its front. During the insertion of the spur the plate B will be so held as to relatively overhang the edge c2 of the fold e, whereby the bar D, which consequently occupies a position clear of the shield-tab E', will be moved to a plane in front of said tab, when the plate and fastener are moved against the fold and shield, as above described. The plate B and fastener A are thenshifted sidewise in the direction of the other edge of the cross-piece of the scarf in Fig. 2 to the left, such shifting movement bringing the bend d3 of the bar D/ to a position wherein said bend intimately extends around the proximate edges of the fold c and tab E. The bar D is then bent vertically upward, so that its catch or hook 11.2 will be brought in contact with the other edge of the tab E', thereby resulting in the latter being clamped at its edges bythe bar and serving to rigidly maintain the plateB and fastener A in proper position. After the operation described an oblique turn (indicated by c3) is made in the fold e of the cross-piece, the latter then, as indicated by c', led transversely in front of the shield and the upper ends of the aprons F, which in the meantime have been placed in position and the terminal portion c4 of said cross-piece is next neatly folded and tucked at the rear and finally secured by stitching contiguous to the proximate edges of plate B and shield-tab E to complete the scarf.

Fig. l exemplifies the general steps involved in the completion of the scarf after the plate B and fastener A have been adj usted, as illustrated in Fig. 2.

The bending` over of the ears Z) b on the front of the plate and the location of the curved portion (l of the member D at said side result in forming a space or chamber thereat in which the clenched portions of the wire fastener A are located and so disposed and guarded that they will not objectionably project. to catch the fabric of the scarf. The plate B and member D, conditioned as described, constitute both a support for the fastener A and a housing for the clenched portions thereof.

From the foregoing description it will be appreciated that by my invention the mainlfacture of Teck or similar scarfs is greatly simplified and made more convenient and the necessity for specially-skilled employees or tools obviated.

I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the particular arrangement of parts and details of features shown and described, but reserve The right to all modifications that may be fairly considered within the scope ol' my invention.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isi l. A wire necktie-fastener having at one side a forwardly-dislj)osed angular extension presenting an outwardly-extending spur radially projecting relative to said fastener, and coacting shield-engaging means at the opposite side of the fastener.

2. A wire necktie-fastener attached on the rear of a plate, a forwardly-disposed angular extension contiguous to the plate edge at one side and presenting an outwardly-extending spur radially projecting relative to said plate, and coacting shield-engaging means contiguous to the opposite edge of the plate.

A wire necktie-fastener attached on the rear of a plate, a forwardly-disposed angular extension contiguous to the plate-top, and a downwardly-extendingtransversely-disposed barD" at the lower part of the plate, said bar D having a catch.

4. A wire necktie-fastener attached 011 the rear of a plate, a forward upwardly-proj ecting spur at the top of said plate, and a downwardly-extending bar transversely disposed in a plane forward of the lower part of the plate, said bar having a catch.

5. A plate having ears on one side, a wire necktie-fastener attached to the opposite side of the plate, and abent inner member secured by said ears and terminating at one end in a forwardly-disposed angular spur radially projecting relative to said plate, and at the other end in coacting shieldsengaging means.

G. The combination with a shield, of a plate having an upper angular spur engaged in a perforation of the shield and lower shield-engaging means maintaining said spur so engaged in position, and a wire necktie-fastener comprising a narrow tongue and bent terminals in engagement with the plate.

7. The combination with a shield, of a plate at the rear thereof and having an upper angu- TIO 8.. The combination With a shield having a tab E', of a necktie-fastener comprising a plate having ears, and a bent wire member clamped by said ears and terminating at one end in an extension engaging said shield through one hole only therein, and at its other end in a clamping-bar D', engaging said tab. 9. The combination in a scarf or neclrtie, of a shield having the tab E', a cross-piece embodying a rear fold c, a necktie-fastener having an extension engaging the fold c'and shield, and having a clamping-bar passing around one contiguous edge of the tab E', eX- tending across-the latter and engaging with the opposite edge thereof, the cross-piece of the scarf or tie extending transverselyv across the shield at the front and having its terminal portion folded and stitched at the rear adjacent to the contiguous edges of the fold c and the tab E.

10. The combinationy of a plate forming a support and having a housing-chamber, and an opening in the plate, a metallic necktie-fastener on the rear of said support and having a portion passing through the opening of the plate and bent to lie within the housing-chamber, and means independent of the necktiefastener, for attaching shield.

11. The metallic support having a for-A wardly projecting portion providing a guarded space at the front thereof,`a metallic necktie-fastener on the rear of said support, and having-portions passed through said sup-y port and clenched within said guarded space, and, means independent of the necktie-fastener for attaching said support to ashield.

12. Thecombination in a scarf or necktie, of a shield and fabric cross-piece, the latter having a fold extending at the shield rear, a plate provided with metallic engaging means said support to for connecting said plate to the fold and shield, and a metallic necktie-fastener on the rear of the plate and attached thereto inde pendent of the fold and shield.

13. The combination in a scarf or necktie, of a shield and fabric cross-piece, the latter having a fold extending at the shield rear, a plate provided with metallic engaging means for connecting 'said plate to the fold'and shield, and a metallic necktie-fastener on the rear of the plate and having clenched ate taching portions engaged therewith and lying between the fold and plate.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, this Sth day of January, A. D. 1903.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM PAXTON, HELEN E. MAHER.

OTT() KRAUS. 

